Aircooled VW South Africa

The "railing" that holds the engine rubber seal in place in my bug is rather crusty and stuffed...

Replacing the valance would be nice, but really, not muchg else is wrong with it, and '67 valances are not a Dime-a-dozen...

Is it possible to buy new railings somewhere and then weld them in, or can you recommend a metal shop in Jo'burg who could build me a new one and then weld it in?...

Cheers, N.

I've had good results with a small and a large screwdriver. Use the small one to remove the bits of hardened old rubber, and the large one to reshape the channel.

Much less radical than cutting and welding.

...problem is, there are chunks of the railing that simply don't exist anymore, so screwdrivers don't help me much there. :/

There is no rubber in place at the moment.

N.

I have a old valance at home I will check to see if the channel is still in usable condition, if so you can have it, you could even pop rivet it into place with small rivets.

Thanks Rui; always appreciated.

...got some wierd looks this morning when guys rocked up at work, pulled into the basement and saw me working on my bug...

"Whaaat? Have you never seen someone using the company parking as their workshop? <mumble>Morons...</mumble>"

...so I had bumper pieces all over the place, the polish out, and tools strewn across the parking. So. Whaaat?

*lol*

N.

Idiots, they just don't understand.

Well I've replaced a clutch assembly and flywheel on the forecourt at the Onestop in Bloem.........

I've repaired my back shifter rod coupling on the sidewalk next to a busstop at 17:00 on Blouberg way.

..... Drove away of course

*lmao*

...I've repaired bikes in the middle of nowhere, and wounds in place I preferably wouldn't have.

Not air cooled related, but I had to swop a destroyed caravan tyre with the my tow cars spare wheel tyre. All the tools I had with me were a Hunting knife and a large screwdriver.
Worse part was that I had pulled into a garage forecourt and not one of the staff offered to help or let us use the workshop facilities !

...that's a real MacGuvyer story that.